A recent spell of poor weather is set to end with temperatures set to exceed 20C next week.
Forecasters from the Met Office are predicting sunny spells for next Friday with temperatures of 22C in the south of England and 21C in the West Midlands.
Meanwhile, Manchester can expect a sunny day and temperatures of 19C with thermometers in Belfast expected to exceed 20C.
Unfortunately, it won't all be good news as rain and spring showers are still likely to impact parts of the country.
Temperatures are set to rise in the UK over the next week
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The forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend and the first week of May reads: "During the first weekend, northern parts of the UK are likely to be predominantly dry, while areas of rain or showers, perhaps heavy and thundery, clear erratically from the south to usher in a spell of drier weather here too.
"There is likely to be a fair amount of low cloud in the east at times, with spells of coastal fog, but also temperatures generally above average for the time of year.
"Through the following week, all areas are likely to see a mixture of periods of rain and drier interludes.
"Overall, northern, especially north-western, parts of the UK will probably be driest and sunniest, while the more changeable conditions remain more likely in the south."
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The forecast for next Friday May 10
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The Netweather website said of the bank holiday weekend: "The weather remains quite unsettled. Some will be lucky and see fair weather with lengthy dry spells but others will keep more cloud and see outbreaks of rain.
"Temperatures will be in the mid-to-high teens across the UK but should edge up towards 20C, even the low 20s for any sunny, sheltered parts of England."
It comes after a particularly wet April where the UK has seen an average of 99mm of rainfall so far.
Parts of the southeast had close to their monthly average fall in the past 36 hours alone. Some areas had 40-50mm of rain, compared to an average of 53mm for the whole of April for the region. The east had 25mm of rain fall in the same period.
The end of April has seen wet weather
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Amy Bokota, of the Met Office, said that April has been “duller than it should be on average."
She added: "It’s been a month of two halves where it’s been quite warm for the first half, and then quite cool up until now, and then it’s expecting to warm back up again."
